Safety handle device



Patented Mar. 29, 1927.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM EVANS, 0F YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

SAFETY HANDLE DEVICE.

Application filed August 27, 1926.

The object is the provision of a simple means for effectively holding animplement, such as a hammer, hatchet, axe or the like on the handletherefor, in which a bendable 5 yoke member is let in one side and alongthe edges of the eye end of the hammer, and in which the arms oi' theyoke are bent against the outer face of the implement, so that thehandle and head of the implement 10 are effectively associated withoutthe employment 0f wedges or analogous devices.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the 1nvention consists in theimprovement as hereinaiter described and definitely claimed.

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Figure l is a side elevation, with parts in section, to illustrate theapplication of my improvement.

' Figure 2 is an end view of a hammer provided with the improvement.

Figure 8 is a perspective view of the eye end of the handle for thehammer.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement.

In the showing of the drawings I have illustrated my improvementemployed for holding the head and handle of a machinists hammerassociated, but obviously the improvementl maybe successfully employedin connection with other types of similar im plements.

The handle l has what I will. term its eye end 2, provided on one of itssides with a transverse slot 3, the said slot merging into of the saidend of the handle. Received in these aligning slots there 1s the yokememlongitudinal slots 4 on the opposite edges Serial No. 131,976.

ber that constitutes the improvement. The yoke is formed from a strip offlat bendable metal, the connecting` element 5 of which having its endsbent laterally, as at 6, and from thence extended to provide kparallelarms 7. The part 5 is received in the slot or opening 3, the arms 7being received in the slots or openings 4f. It should be stated .thatthe arms 7 are of a greater length than the slots 4 so that when the end2 of the handle is inserted in the eye Of the hammer 8, the projectingends of the arms 7 may be bent in opposite directions against the outerface of the said head, and thereby effectively hold the head and handleassociated without the employment of wedges or analogous means.

Having described the invention, I claim A means for holding a handle ona hammer head in which the eye end of the handle has one of its sidesprovided with a groove that communicates with vlongitudinal grooves thatenter from the outer end ofthe said eye end of the handle, andcomprising a flat yoke whose central portion is designed to be rec eivedin the iirst mentioned groove, the ends of the said central portionbeing bent angularly and extended to provide parallel arms which arereceived in the longitudinal grooves of the handle and projecttherebeyond and the ends of the arms designed to be bent against theouter face of the hammer head when the end of the handle is insertedthrough the eye of the said head. i

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM EVANS.

